A letter from John Browne, Hugh Prich., Vau. Powell, Rich. Robts., Jn. Meredith, and Jn. Rbts., to their 'ancient honourd & beloued friend' [Walter Cradock] [1656], commenting on the matter and style of a late paper called 'an addresse &c.', that is, The Humble Representation and Address to His Highnesse of several Churches and Christians in South Wales and Monmouthshire, 1656, being a reply by Cradock and others to A Word for God published in the previous year by Vavasor Powell and his followers. Also included in the volume, being originally pinned to the letter, are three sheets in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, one containing 'Marginall Notes on the preface of the Word of God. so called to my deare V.P.', written '11m. 11d. 55 or 56', and the others containing a rough draft, partly cancelled, of a statement of the writer's attitude towards Cromwell's government, written '12m. 15d. 55'.

Records, 1587-1754, relating to the government of Montgomery, Shropshire, Wales and the marches, as well as the administration of the Cherbury and Powis Castle estates.

Papers, 1644-1691, accumulated by members of the Herbert family of Cherbury during the course of their political activities. They include records and correspondence, 1644-1658, relating to the family’s role in the civil war throughout Wales, and their subsequent dispossession and rehabilitation; records and correspondence, 1660-1689, concerning the Montgomeryshire militia and the suppression of disaffected persons in the Welsh marches; and records and correspondence, 1660-1691, relating to the family’s support of Charles II and James II, including military service in France.

Records and correspondence, 1646-1698, accumulated by members of the Herbert family of Powis Castle during the course of their political activities. Most of the papers relate to the sequestration of their estates after the civil war, while others arise from the Herberts’ commitment to the Jacobite cause during and after the ‘Glorious Revolution’.

A draft by Morgan Llwyd, 17 April, 1657, of a statement on the Fifth Monarchy Men. Also included in the volume, being originally attached to the statement, is a leaf containing an exhortation not to forerun the steps of Jehovah.